Ideally we want to find a way to be pulled towards something, because essentially, that way we are less likely to quit. Will power has a shelf life, especially when fears breathing all over it!

Im convinced that by stripping things down to their basic truths we save so much energy, and stop fighting the wrong opponent.

Being average isn’t the intrinsic fear, its what’s held inside of being average that will hold the juice for you. Its what being average will mean about you, what memories it brings up that you fear reliving, what threats it poses or that by being average conflicts with who you think you are meant to be.

Many of us deceive ourselves about who we should be and are continually in conflict with ourselves because life keeps delivering evidence to the contrary. (Watch the Apprentice to see this phenomena in action)

We all want to be the leading role in the film of our lives, but if we keep being cast as the ‘a tree’ for the scenery, we have to look at ‘why?’ rather than getting upset. When we know ‘who we are’ we can get training with the correct plan for us and not for who we think we are.

Ironically, the only way to be who we THINK we are, is to first know WHO we really are.

I might be mentally deluded enough to think im Laurence Shahlaei, but when i start using his training routine im going to be dead under the first squat! Its not to say I can not set my goals to be like him (bit of a stretch mind!!!) but I have to be honest that Im 5’6 and 64kg’s! Ironically by telling ourselves the truth we stop failing. I start by squatting 60kg not 260kg when I know im Jon not Laurence and I start making progress and eventually I become who I want to be.

I know this is a funny comparison, but we do it all the time. We take a prescription that is meant for someone else and then wonder why we still feel shit!